That explains it.

Ted Levitt is an old, old, premie.  He was always a nice guy from what I saw, he was a DLM bureaucrat, somewhat like me.  He bacame community coordinator in Miami for Elan Vital in 1980, when I got sent to San Francisco.

Here is a funny story I remember about Ted.  In 1980 or so, at some festival, the community coordinators were meeting and in that meeting with great fanfare, it was announced that Ted Levitt was not promoted to the position of:

HONEY OAT BAR COORDINATOR FOR THE UNITED STATES

Even at the time, as a truely indoctrinated cult member, I almost had to leave the room because I was laughing.  It just struck me as really funny.

So, Ted if you are reading this, and we know that you are, hi to you and yours, and it seems you have moved up in the world, from coordinating peanut butter cookies to working at MDC and getting Rawat an event.  I am, like, so impressed!